Our dear Mark Hoppus bass

Mark Hoppus Bass got cool looks, IMHO. He used to write interesting basslines but it keep get simpler and simpler, more uninteresting. During the day of cheshire cat and dude ranch, there are to me one of the coolest punk basslines. But in enema and take off... they cannot be heard anymore.

The bass solo in ANTHEM PART 2 consist of only 3 notes...

The latest album really disappoint me alot... I used to look up to him a lot. Now there's a decrease.... i started to notice fat mike of NOFX, the songs " 180 degrees", "all outta angst" to me, have really cool basslines. "180 degress" basslines sounds like Carribean pirates songs.

Anyone have any opinions about mark?

The music industry are degrading. Bass are becoming less and less popular, some even look down on it. The reason why i was still listening to punk rock is that it have basslines that i enjoy a lot. THE IDIOTS ARE TAKING OVER

PEOPLE NOWADAYS THINK THAT MAKING MUSIC NO ONE EVER HEARD IS REALLY ABSURD.

The music industry are degrading. Bass are becoming less and less popular, some even look down on it. The reason why i was still listening to punk rock is that it have basslines that i enjoy a lot. THE IDIOTS ARE TAKING OVER

PEOPLE NOWADAYS THINK THAT MAKING MUSIC NO ONE EVER HEARD IS REALLY ABSURD.

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Man, I totally agree with you, Why do we always have people looking down on us as bassist, Oh were only the backbone of the band! Geez, It really annoys me when all people think bass is is someone plucking whole notes. Bah! But I agree with you also on that Blink-182 stuff, There were the good days, but now its mostly crap.

Aside from carousel blink 182 $ux. If you think that bassis are becoming some kind of mucus you should hear some of the newest Less Than Jake's albums ("Athem" and "boulder and boundaries" are cool CD's) I completly lost my mind when I hear the bass player, Roger, playing the bass and singing, because the bass lines he creates are pretty hard to play it requires a lot of concentration to keep the rithm, he's a pick player, a great ska player.

To be honest....i'd be embarrased to play anything any member of blink 182 plays.

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Travis Barker the drummer is good though. IMHO the real talent in that band.

I do remember reading an interview with Blink 182 and Tom DeLong commented that they (Delong & Hoppus) aren't very good with their instruments and that the" record company hires studio guys that play better than they ever will" to play during some of the recording sessions. I have never heard anyone in Blink 182 boast about how good they are. In fact they kind of make fun of themselves.